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Scientists have rewritten the story of gallium after discovering that its unusual atomic bonds re-form at high temperatures, ...

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science ...

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Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already being gathered from plants, ...

The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never looked especially ...

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Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create ...